Germany expelled two Russian diplomats Wednesday over the brazen killing of a Georgian on the streets of Berlin in August and prosecutors said evidence suggested the slaying was ordered by Moscow or by authorities in Russia’s republic of Chechnya.
Read moreVinegar from Modena, Italy, has a geographic designation recognizing its link to traditions in the area, but the EU’s top court ruled Wednesday that the protections do not extend to the Italian word for balsamic.
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Poland’s agriculture minister says 21 wild boars have died as a result of an outbreak of African swine fever close to the German border.
Read moreGerman prosecutors in charge of intelligence cases will take over an investigation of the killing of a former Chechen rebel commander by a Russian national in Berlin, German media reported Tuesday.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition partners, the struggling center-left Social Democrats, picked a pair of left-leaning politicians to lead the party, a surprise move that will seriously test the so-called grand coalition with Merkel’s conservatives.
Read moreA man convicted of murder 37 years ago has the right to be forgotten and have his name removed from online search results, Germany’s highest court ruled on Wednesday.
Read moreGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday urged EU countries to speak as one in their dealings with China, warning it would be “disastrous” to go it alone at a time of tensions over technology and human rights.
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A Lebanese-born Swiss real estate mogul said Monday that he had purchased Adolf Hitler’s top hat and other Nazi memorabilia from a German auction in order to keep them out of the hands of neo-Nazis, and has agreed to donate them to a Jewish group.
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A German state museum with one of the biggest collection of Baroque treasures in Europe has been robbed, police said Monday, with media estimates of losses of up to a billion dollars.
Read moreIn the middle of a dense Bavarian forest, amateur historian Dieter Stockmann points to the ghostly shapes of an abandoned motorway from the Nazi era.
Read moreAdolf Hitler’s top hat, Eva Braun’s dresses and a silver-covered edition of “Mein Kampf” are among the items being put up for sale by a German auction house, prompting protests from Jewish leaders.
Read moreFinancial penalties have failed for years to bring Bavaria’s pollution-control measures in line, but an EU magistrate called it unjust Thursday to compel resolution by jailing public officials from the German state.
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A Berlin zoo says a giant panda whose twin cubs have captured international attention has undergone a CT scan after veterinarians discovered one of his kidneys was smaller than the other.
Read moreGermany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe.
Read moreAn escape tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall opened to the public on Thursday for the first time amid celebrations of the 30-year anniversary of the opening of communist East Germany’s border.
Read moreGermany’s top court ruled Tuesday that sanctioning jobseekers deemed uncooperative in the search for work was illegal in some cases, in a blow to the controversial unemployment reforms rammed through by Gerhard Schroeder’s government in 2005.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday she wants to drastically increase the number of charging stations for electric cars in Germany to give consumers the confidence to switch over to electric from internal combustion engines.
Read moreThe German government has acknowledged that it picked up the tab when the country’s spy agency recently took dozens of foreign agents on a trip to the Munich Oktoberfest.
Read moreIn a blow to environmental activists, a German court on Thursday shot down a lawsuit brought by three farming families accusing the government of not doing enough to halt climate change and protect their farms.
Read moreGermany’s top court on Thursday confirmed the acquittal of several former Deutsche Bank chief executives who had been accused of perjury in the Kirch trial, one of Germany’s most spectacular corporate legal sagas.
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